The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-21
LATE SUMMER ADJUSTMENTS.
interesting Points Relating to Several
Matters of Interest.

orbits, bringing each into favor at fairly
regular intervals, or whether it be that the
new out-of-door life of women demands a
progressive increase in the number of out
of-door games, certain it is that the bow and
arrow are feeling the impulse of a decided
boom. Tennis has held its own through the
summer, few ladies' cricket clubs have
struggled into existence, croquet, after
years OF neglect, has taken heart of grace,
but archery ,unleSs the signs of the times are
very deceptive, will be we'll up in the race for
favor IN the braciug days of the fall Arch
cry clubs are beginning to form at the sum
ner resorts Half dozen have held their
initial meetings within few weeks past, in
the summer villages sprinkled through the
CatsiSllls. The stay-at-home folks set up
targets on cool afternoons in the parks, and
when the city begins to fill up again in
September the racquet and the bow will Join
issue with each other.
There is great deal to be said for archery
as game for men or women either. To
plant an arrow in the gold requires more
sklll than goes to make champion tennis
player, and yet the actual outlay of
strength called for is not SO great but that
the sexes compete with each other on prac-
tically equal terms. The archery enthusi-
asst has much to say of the developing In
iiuence of bow and arrow practice on the
system and the steady increase in the
muscular power of the back and arms.
That it trains the eye needs hardly to be
said
Girls like target practice as a matter of
course because of the chances of picturesque
costuming which it offers Tennis clubs
may dress as they like, but archers, above all
things, must be redolent of the woods and
wear the hunters green. A newly organ
lied club of ten or dozen lS-year- has
adopted as its uniform white serge short
gown, with blouse waist, fnll skirt, green
sash and culver and green ribbons in the
white hat. A second club, with an eve to
the practical as well as pretty, has been
shooting for two or three weeks past in sill
yer gray gowns with round sleeveless jack
cts of green. A dainty individual costume,
just finished by city modiste, is of white
null, with sprays of green leaves embroid-
cred on the wide hem, and green ribbon
bows catching up the drapery here and
there. Better adapted to service is fawn-
colored cloth gown, with green shoulder
knot and sash. The club device is embroid-
cred somewhere about the costume, and the
club pin, if it has adopted one, fastens the
sash Men seldom wear full club suit,
but content themselves with plain dark
coats bearing the club insignia and shooting
hats
Two good rules for every archer to adopt
are these: Get good bow, no matter if it
costs more at the outset, and do not waste
your strength trying to handle one that is
toe heavy. | have seen delicate girl plant
six arrows in the gold in succession, using
bow of seventy pounds carrying force. But
the standard for man is only fifty-four
pounds and woman who is not an expert
with the instrument, and who has not used
herself TO shooting every day, will do better
to begin with about thirty pounds
force and advance from that only
as she finds that her skill and strength
warrant. A necessary preliminary, with
out which no woman ought to venture to
call herself an archer, is to learn to string her
own bow, holding it with the left hand with
the bottom end against the inside of the
left foot and bending it gradually till the
string will slip into the notch. The niceties
of target practice can be learned only by ex-
perience, but the road to knowledge is a
pleasant one and the archer travels it with
out urging.
CITY CHILDREN
are apt to be understood They strike me
as microscopic frequently. Ask country
man, used to lads and lasses brought up on
on the farm, the age OF the next boy he
passes on the pavements, and, three chances
in four, measuring the height and shoulder
girth with his eye, he will put it two or
y
old doesn't look above II years old to
him, nor the 15-years-old as if
he had entered his teens / got
hold of some figures the other day which
show that these things need not be as they
are. DIR. Anderson, who is well known in
connection with the physical Education As
ISOLATION, has compared the height and
weight of $50 girls, pupils of a Brooklyn school
where regular gymnasium exercise is insist
cd eli, fc,.
ton school girls taken at random. The re-
suits are as follows:
Height at
With exercise. 5o5i 58as $3.50 Oo,s6 si,5o $3.50
Without 49,, ,51.34 So AZ 1888 1915 1914 CLIO
With exercise 81 81 IL o. 10 1918 i15 4s 1872 70
Without -. 62S5 6SS4 rs u 8S65 9S, 4s 106 90
The figures show an average, in height at
least, of two years difference, which is at
tributable to no cause but education of the
body as well as of the mind. The near APP
proach of the opening of the school year
ought to make parents careful to have an
eye to muscles as well as text books. This
is especially necessary in the case of girls,
for the average boy will to some extent
look out for himself in such matters.
The possibility of working women's CO.
operative hotel, conducted on common sense
business principles and giving to self-depen-
dent women what such an institution ought
TO give then-a chance Of comfortable and
hygienic living at low cost, but without loss
of self-respect-is again under discussion.
If Stewards magnificent blunder should be
retrieved and the plan which his executors
bungled should be bettered, and put into exc
cution by woman, the wheels of time will
have revolved to some effect. Women al
ready owe great deal to Mrs. Candace
Wheeler. The scores of exchanges for wom-
ems work throughout the country, have
sprung up on the heels of the original estab-
lishment founded by her in New York. The
Decorative Art Society and the Society of
Associated Artists have at once trained
women TO earn livelihood and won respect
for the art textiles of this country. The
establishment of a successful cooperative
hotel is the latest plan which Mrs. Wheeler
has taken into consideration, and the
chances are that, bringing into it the same
executive ability she has shown in other
schemes for the help of women, she will not
fail
MISS CHARLOTTE MORRILL,,
who has been spoken of In various quarters
as possible successor to Miss Freeman, as
President of Wellesley, is Secretary of the
Adelphi Academy, of Brooklyn, a prepare
tory school of high standing. Miss Morrill,
is q fine-looking woman, with a clear,
healthy complexion, bright eyes and dark
hair She has quick smile, is brilliant
talker, and is the personiAcation of common
sense and GOOD will Sho is | believe "A